linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracing/function-graph-tracer: adjustments of the trace informations

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Message-ID: <20081128192249.GA22263@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:22:49 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Tim Bird <tim.bird@...sony.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing/function-graph-tracer: adjustments of the
	trace informations


another detail: it would be nice to annotate IRQ entries some more.

right now if a syscall is interrupted by a hardware interrupt, it looks 
like this:

 0)               |              skb_dequeue() {
 0)      0.365 us |                _spin_lock_irqsave();
 0)      0.422 us |                _spin_unlock_irqrestore();
 0)      1.912 us |              }
 0)               |              memcpy_toiovec() {
 0)               |                copy_to_user() {
 0)               |                  smp_apic_timer_interrupt() {
 0)      0.450 us |                    native_apic_mem_write();
 0)               |                    irq_enter() {
 0)      0.410 us |                      idle_cpu();
 0)      1.167 us |                    }
 0)               |                    hrtimer_interrupt() {

the natural nesting is nice, but easy to miss. It would be nice to have 
something like:

 0)               |              skb_dequeue() {
 0)      0.365 us |                _spin_lock_irqsave();
 0)      0.422 us |                _spin_unlock_irqrestore();
 0)      1.912 us |              }
 0)               |              memcpy_toiovec() {
 0)               |                copy_to_user() {
 0)             =====>               smp_apic_timer_interrupt() {
 0)      0.450 us |                    native_apic_mem_write();
 0)               |                    irq_enter() {
 0)      0.410 us |                      idle_cpu();
 0)      1.167 us |                    }
 0)               |                    hrtimer_interrupt() {

and perhaps something like this at the end of the irq frame:

 0)      0.408 us |                          _local_bh_enable();
 0) +   13.139 us |                        }
 0) +   13.887 us |                      }
 0)      0.406 us |                      idle_cpu();
 0) +   15.373 us |                    }
 0) +   74.564 us |                  }
 0)               |                  _cond_resched() {
 0)               |                    need_resched() {
 0)      0.423 us |                      constant_test_bit();
 0)      1.164 us |                    }
 0)      1.915 us <===               } /* IRQ 1 end */
 0) +   78.396 us |                }
 0) +   79.123 us |              }
 0)      0.387 us |              skb_pull();
 0)               |              kfree_skb() {

?

	Ingo
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